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	Situation puzzle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Situation puzzles are also known as lateral thinking puzzles or simply yes/no puzzles.
		Situation puzzles are usually played in a group, with one person hosting the puzzle and the others asking questions which can be answered with yes or no only.
		The term lateral thinking was coined by Edward De Bono to denote a creative problem-solving style that involves looking at the given situation from unexpected angles, and is typically necessary to the solution of situation puzzles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Situation_puzzle (534 words)

	Situation 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		They then start building their puzzles as fast as possible with the restriction that every piece they place on the puzzle must connect to one of their pieces which is already on the board.
		The puzzle which makes up the majority of the game is not difficult as puzzles go but having to assemble it fast brings a new dimension to puzzle building.
		The game did well enough that Parker Brothers released a second game in the series called Situation 7 which was played on a circular board and set in outer space with astronauts, satellites and rockets replacing the paratroops and tanks.
	www.gamepile.com /game07.html (301 words)

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		Section 1 consists of situation puzzles which are set in a realistic world; the situations could all actually occur.
		Answer: Exactly the same situation as in 1.21a (one slight variation has a hand in the box instead of a whole arm), with the two men being two of the fellow passengers who had already lost their arms.
		Bibliography: The game of situation puzzles is also known by a variety of other names: mystery questions, story riddles, lateral thinking puzzles, mini-mysteries, minute mysteries, missing links, how come?, situational puzzles, law school puzzles, quistels (in the Netherlands and other parts of Europe), mystery puzzles, and so on.
	fringe.davesource.com /Fringe/Entertainment/Puzzles (8923 words)

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		Don't forget to read (or reread) all of the old situations (and other things!) in the "vault." And, of course, also and always cool is the Intersection of Indecision.
		In the situation game, you think of a completely bizarre situation, and you and a friend (or multiple friends) each share your opinions on what you would do in the unlikely event that this situation would acutally arise.
		For example, in the Grape Situation, a question such as, "Does this urge to suck grapes come upon him randomly, or can he just schedule a time during the day (such as 3:41 a.m., when I'm asleep) for sucking grapes?" may be asked by one of your friends who is considering the dilemma.
	members.tripod.com /~situationgame (854 words)

	Situation Puzzles List
		In the game of situation puzzles, a mysterious situation is presented to a group of players, who must then try to find out what's going on by asking further questions.
		If you know other situation puzzles not on this list, please send them to me (but you may want to read through all the answers first; I may already have listed your puzzle in the answer list, as a variant of an item already on the list).
		Situation puzzles are also known by a variety of other names: mystery questions, story riddles, lateral thinking puzzles, mini-mysteries, minute mysteries, missing links, how come?, situational puzzles, law school puzzles, quistels (in parts of Europe), mystery puzzles, albatross stories, Intrigue puzzles, Who Dunnits, Please Explains, monkey puzzles, two-minute mysteries, conundrums, computer games, and so on.
	www.kith.org /logos/things/sitpuz/situations.html (3240 words)

	Situation 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The puzzle which makes up the majority of the game is not difficult as puzzles go but having to assemble it fast brings a new dimension to puzzle building and the fact that the puzzle is circular makes it slightly more difficult.
		The puzzle adds a strategy element to the game; should you build as fast as possible and go for the most territory or should you concentrate on trying to build the special facilities for the additional points?
		The first was called Situation 4 which took place on a battlefield with the players trying to assemble their puzzles to gain control of airfields and refineries and with the special facilities being tanks and paratroopers.
	www.gamepile.com /game24.html (337 words)

	Gamasutra - Features - "Fourteen Forms of Fun" [10.12.01]
		All problems have a similar pattern: they consist of rules (the constraints of the computer and of the programming language for programming, for example), a setting (the current situation in a board game, the program in which the module must be integrated for programming) and of a goal (what it is that must be achieved).
		These two examples involve gameplay that is close to solving a puzzle: the situation is abstract and the rules are obvious and strict.
		Puzzles have existed for centuries and, as such, creating a new one that would be fundamentally different from what has been done before would be nearly impossible, at least for non-dynamic puzzles.
	www.gamasutra.com /features/20011012/garneau_02.htm (1615 words)

	Adventure Game Glossary - Mr. Bill's Adventureland
		Puzzles may be some problem that is logically related to the story, or may be totally unrelated to it (for example, a slider puzzle).
		An adventure game is called a 'Puzzle Game' if it consists of primarily puzzles to solve, with a minimal story that is only used as a device to present the puzzles.
		A puzzle found in some games that shows a picture that has been cut into squares (or 'tiles'), and then the squares are mixed up.
	www.mrbillsadventureland.com /howto/whatisadv/glossary.htm (1588 words)

	Behavior in Changing Environments: Learning, Problem Solving, and Seeing the World
		Inquiry into any kind of situation can thus be seen to involve alternating between apprehending (i.e., perceiving or grasping) basic facts and impressions from our senses or external sources of information and internally comprehending (i.e., conceiving or conceptually mapping) the situation as we care to understand it.
		A situation viewed by one person as a problem may be seen by another as an opportunity.
		From the moment they start to identify the issues in the problem situation, their opposing world views will become apparent to each other and almost inevitably will result in conflict over the way the problem is even approached, unless one or both has learned how to work with people of differing styles.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~prspctvs/course_materials.htm (10120 words)

	Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ideally, they have experienced the situation presented from one side of the interaction or the other and can specifically relate to the concerns that need to be dealt with in the interaction.
		In a puzzle situation tell team members that one of their group has been secretly told to be a saboteur to the groups problem solving efforts.
		Sources for these types of puzzles are endless: The public library, game stores, bookstores or the local bartender almost always has a few good brain teasers up his or her sleeve (It might cost you a drink to get the solution, though!).
	www.ozols.com /Traingam.htm (5123 words)

	PUZZLES
		Puzzle 52 : A farmer with a rectangular farm
		At the beginning of this puzzle, there are 4 cockroaches at the four corners of this square.
		One day one scientist (probably the same one as in the horn's puzzle) visits this tribes and tells them that there is at least one blue eyed man in the tribe.
	www.geocities.com /hnene/puzzles/puzzles.html (5187 words)

	Equator
		This sliding-piece puzzle is a ball with three intersecting rings of moving pieces which divide the ball into eights.
		On the Equator puzzle the 4-coloured pieces are considered to be the poles, so it is held so that the 4 top triangles have different colours.
		Hold the puzzle so that the destination of the piece is one of the two places between the front and the top (north pole).
	www.geocities.com /jaapsch/puzzles/equator.htm (1918 words)

	Middle school math puzzle.
		he puzzles on this page are designed to be a challenge for those with mathematical insightfulness, yet solvable by the majority.
		A miller is accustomed to take as toll one-tenth of the flour he has ground for his customer.
		Keep in mind that these puzzles are intended to be solved by students in grades 6-12.
	www.angelfire.com /ny/brockport/pom.html (551 words)

	Situation Puzzles
		Welcome to the world of situation puzzles, a sordid world full of rash and mysterious action, rife with double meanings and labyrinthine plots, where murder, suicide, and adultery are the order of the day and vengeance is bittersweet.
		These pages do not provide a way to play situation puzzles on the Web; they simply provide a static list of situation puzzles, along with answers, variant problem statements and solutions, and a bibliography.
		Feel free to drop me a line about situation puzzles or wordgames, but please don't write me concerning other kinds of puzzles.
	kith.org /logos/things/sitpuz (527 words)

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		In other Member States, the critical situation on the labour market and the dismantling and restructuring of the welfare state gave rise to a generally more restrained way of planning one's life.
		Nous l'avons appelé "puzzle" parce que nous avons l'intention de vous présenter tous les deux mois un sujet en rapport avec notre activité de recherche du moment ; ces sujets constitueront en quelque sorte les éléments d'un puzzle qui s'assembleront avec le temps en un vaste tableau illustrant les multiples perspectives de ce thème complexe.
		Dans d'autres, la situation critique sur le marché du travail, la perte d'acquis sociaux ou les mutations de l'Etat social sont responsables d'une plus grande frilosité des projets de vie.
	www.oif.ac.at /sdf/sdf_01_2002.html (3633 words)

	GameSpot:Video Games PC PlayStation 2 GameCube PSP DS GBA PS2 PS3 Xbox 360 PlayStation 3
		Puzzle clues are sprinkled throughout their answers, so look for patterns to their speech.
		Many puzzles have at least two solutions, which explains why you might end up with several mystery items along the way.
		And most puzzles require a lot of traveling to collect and assemble the needed objects.
	www.gamespot.com /features/normality/rules_of_thumb.html (330 words)

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		Their food puzzle was reconverted into a normal food box, to assure unrestricted access to the food [Reinhardt, 1993b].
		The food puzzle is a structural element of the cage, re-designed to serve as primary feeder.
		This problem does not exist in the ceiling puzzle and food puzzle situation: There is no hoarding; once a biscuit has been laboriously retrieved, it is quickly consumed [Reinhardt, 1993a,e; Murchison, 1994,1995].
	www.awionline.org /lab_animals/rhesus/pho79-91.htm (1057 words)

	Languages in Luxembourg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The linguistic situation in Luxembourg is characterised by the fact that several languages are spoken and written at the same time in the same place.
		This situation is reflected whenever the use of languages exceeds the requirement of daily conversation.
		Luxembourg is thus prepared to be widely open to foreign culture, especially because the small size of the country (999 square miles) and its population (399 239 inhabitants) hardly allow for a rich national cultural life of high standard.
	www.luxembourg.co.uk /lingua.html (2970 words)

	Encyclopedia article on Puzzle [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A puzzle is a problem or enigma presented as entertainment; that is written down, acted out, etc.
		The history of puzzles goes back many thousand years, Tangram being one of the earliest and still one of the most popular puzzles.
		In certain temples of Japan monks used to write mathematical puzzles on temple walls.
	encyclozine.com /Puzzle (235 words)

	Narrative Frames
		Here, there is also a default solution: Hillary is home at the White House and Bill is in the city, telling her on the phone he is on his way home.
		The puzzle posed by the joke -- "What does Clinton tell his wife after making love" -- supplies a set of cues we utilize to construct a scenario from default values, and this frame is then preferentially used to make sense of the rest of the story.
		Since cheating in a social exchange situation is potentially serious, the fact that the story is framed as fiction allows us to see it as humorous: similar to or nearly a threatening situation, but not actually so.
	cogweb.ucla.edu /Culture/Jahn.html (1220 words)

	Final Project
		Now you need to weave these lessons into a unit plan so that students who have a background in each sphere can apply what they have learned to a greater understanding of earth's interacting systems.
		To weave your four sphere lessons into a unit plan, you need to create a unifying essential question, problem/puzzle, situation, experiment, or simulation for students to address.
		Situation: The annual school picnic is scheduled for May 23.
	www2.latech.edu /~mm/essea/high/essc2/intro/final.html (811 words)

	Nintelligent Network \| Review
		Each puzzle shows a mixture of fruits and the order that they should be in.
		While a simple diversion, these puzzles are fun and somewhat addicting, and become the meat of the game.
		Instead of being able to save after each puzzle, you are forced to write down a long password to resume play.
	www.nintelligent.net /review234-68.php (850 words)

	Yuri Boroda's MNM: Meet Neat Math (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For example, the situation "A hungry man + a sandwich" would like to be described by "1+1=1".
		For a married couple "1+1=2 or =3 or =4 "depending on the number of children they have, etc. In general, we should be aware that it is us who derive formulas, and it is us who are in control of them.
		So, it is not enough to know the puzzle to find the solution we are looking for.
	voth.hec.utah.edu /boroda/mnm.html (1024 words)

	Amazon.com: John Nunn's Chess Puzzle Book: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Most chess puzzle books put you in an artificial situation: you are told a combination exists, what the theme is, and what you are required to achieve.
		This one is different") because, as the previous reviewer notes, "all puzzles books put you in artificial positions!" However, presumably the reader of a puzzle book - unless he's been dropped on his head as a child -knows there are combinations in the book.
		In fact, Nunn writes the puzzles were based on his own unpublished analysis of Informator annotations, along with personal game notes and an analysis of two tournaments (Karlsbad 1911 and 1993 Biel).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1901983080?v=glance (1950 words)

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		Followup-To: rec.puzzles Summary: This is part of an archive of questions and answers that may be of interest to puzzle enthusiasts.
		The answers to these puzzles are available in a separate file.
		(DM) Attributions key: When I know who first told me the current version of a puzzle, I've put initials in parentheses after the puzzle statement; this is the key to those acknowledgments.
	mathforum.org /rec_puzzles_archive/logic/part3 (2945 words)

	Lateral Puzzles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Does the reason why this puzzle is just for me have to do with..
		This was an attempt to create, within a puzzle, a situation that could be categorised as "Kafkaesque".
		In each of these works, the central character is in a situation not of his own making that he cannot understand.
	www.lateralpuzzles.com /discus/messages/2928/10977.html (4589 words)

	Gamasutra - Features "Secrets of the Sages: Level Design" [07.23.99]
		O'Connor provides a different take on this chapter, since the first two Abe's games are "side-scroller" platform games, in 2D.
		I do, occasionally [sketch out levels] if the situation is novel.
		The level editor we used on the two Abe games was flexible enough for use as a composition tool.
	www.gamasutra.com /features/19990723/levdesign_chapter_09.htm (366 words)

	EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - Tough Puzzle/Combat Situation for the Party
		But I'm wondering how you guys would handle this situation when you got to it, and exactly how much help would you need from NPCs and items (supply as necessary, but you don't get brownie points if you overuse a bunch.)
		The party consists of a 4th Level Fighter, a 4th Level Monk and a 4th Level Thief.
		My guess is, though, that the party is too random and chaotic to deal with it appropriately, and so should be slain horribly :).
	www.enworld.org /printthread.php?t=5069 (1270 words)

	"The Dog Situation" Puzzle - BrainJuice
		The Rector's four boys have done their best to make the dog situation at the rectory confusing.
		Each of the four, their names Alec, Bob, Charlie, and David, owns two dogs, and each has named his dogs after two of his brothers.
		Thanks go to reader Lora Chapin for this puzzle.
	www.brainj.net /puzzle.php?id=dog (136 words)

	Commentary, October 16, 2000 - BLATANT ENDORSEMENT, MORE SECURITY STUFF, THE INDONESIAN TESTS, AND ROMANCE ON THE NYC ...
		The reason I'm mentioning this to readers of this web page, is that the logic and the reasoning process entered into by the hosts, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, known here as Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, is stunning.
		Situation: Stan, a young chap living in Manhattan right near a subway stop that goes north-and-south (uptown-and-downtown) is fortunate enough to have two equally attractive and single girlfriends, one who lives in the Bronx (north on the subway) named Nora, and the other in Brooklyn (south on the subway) named Sophie.
		And, when he visits one of them, he never announces that he's going to be there, because he's part of this puzzle, and it wouldn't work if he didn't behave that way.
	www.randi.org /jr/10-16-2000.html (1817 words)

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